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As we have continued to gain a deeper understanding of the EOS network, we have created a microsite to host useful resources and tools for users interacting with the EOS project: https://eosnode.tools

We have lots of content planned for this microsite, but after speaking to many dApp developers at recent conferences around the globe we have decided to focus on 2 specific tasks:

### Automating an EOS API node setup

It can be overwhelming to understand whats involved to set up an EOS node, so we have created a guide thats uses [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/) to set up an API with just 2 playbook commands.

The idea behind this, is that any budding EOS dApp developer will eventually need to run their own API nodes to ensure that their custom smart contract actions are indexed from launch. This cant be guaranteed over time, as the `filter-on = *` config directive will not be sustainable as the chain continues to grow and more dApps are running on the network. 

By automating the set up of a node, they can just focus on developing the dApp, knowing the creation of an API node is taken care of.

### Syncing an EOS node to the network

Syncing a fresh API node to the network can take a considerable amount of time as it needs to catch up with 25GB+ of chain data. To tackle this, we are taking daily backups from our own API nodes and offering them out via the microsite (and API) which helps dramatically reduce the sync time from days to hours.

### Future Additions

As a block producer, we are committed to help attract more dApps, developers, users and enthusiasts to the EOS project. We plan to continue with pushing more examples of our infrastructure automation, then will move to adding some resources for the users of the EOS network. We're excited to interact with the community in this way and we hope that this provides a useful resource to those wanting to dig deeper into the EOS project. 

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[Block Matrix](https://blockmatrix.network) are currently a paid standby BP for the EOS network. We are super passionate about the EOS project and are focussed on creating robust infrastructure and open sourcing everything we build to support the network and the wider community.

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